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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems
Message-ID: <3671@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 02:40:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.062503.1325@agate.berkeley.edu> <27865@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <1991Apr6.191106.5863@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Apr7.033635.18412@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991Apr7.033635.18412@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1f.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:

| Just a technical point--UN*X Sys V can run on an 8086.  And an 80286-based
| system can make a workable multi-user UN*X system.

  Your second statement is very true. I question the first. I've run
SysIII on an 8086, but where did you find SysV? There is a Xenix version
for 8086, but as far as I can tell it is based on an enhanced V7 kernel,
and doesn't support shared memory and {I forget, one other major
feature} until you get to Xenix/286.

  There was also a Venix for 8086, but I am 90% siure that was not a
SysV kernel, either.

  So what system are you thinking of?
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